NetWare 4.1/9000 Utilities Reference

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Server Utilities
stopnps
stopnps
Purpose
Use at the HP-UX prompt to stop the NetWare protocol stack.
Syntax
stopnps
Using stopnps
• You must be the root user to run the stopnps command and the system must be at
run level 1 (by typing init 1 at the command line).
• The stopnps command kills the npsd process, which unloads the IPX protocol
stack.
The stopnps command waits up to 60 seconds for IPX clone devices to be closed
before proceeding. New requests to open /dev/ipx are disallowed until the stack
is restarted.
To determine whether the stack is loaded, create a script using the statnps
command and check the return value. If the stack is loaded, statnps returns a
value of 0. If the stack is not loaded, statnps returns a value of 1.
Additional Information
Topic See
Starting the protocol stack “startnps”
Checking the status of the protocol
stack
“statnps”